Bagpipe Plans

The plans were originally produced on a CAD package called Drafix and saved in
the program's native CAD format - this is an extremely user friendly and cheap
drawing package. It was taken over by Autodesk a couple of years ago and was
destined to be discontinued (many of its features being absorbed into both
AutoCAD and Autosketch) but fortunately has been fully updated and is now
available again for Win 9x/NT platform under the name of QuickCAD (currently at
release 7 August 2000 priced around £40.00).

One of the enhancements to Drafix/QuickCAD is the ability to save the
drawings in AutoCAD DWF format - "drawing web format" - which can be read and
printed from either IE or Netscape after downloading the "Whip
Plug-in" from www.autodesk.com. Optional
files in this format will be added shortly. A better option however is to obtain
a CAD package as described below.

The advantage of this system is that you have a vector drawing that can be
scaled and viewed without the inevitable quality loss associated with conversion
to bitmap formats such as GIF or JPG.

A number of fairly cheap CAD packages are available and unrestricted free copies of
some of these are occasionally found on PC magazine covers including in recent
months "TurboCAD 2", "Autosketch 5" and "IntelliCAD"
and on request copies of the drawings can be sent
as e-mail attachments in formats suitable for opening in these and other CAD and
Graphics packages including MicroStation, Unigraphics, CorelDraw and Freehand.

A download area is now available whereby the files can be obtained directly from this site to
suit these and other CAD packages. The plans can be downloaded in "dxf"
format from the links below. If you would like them in a different format then
please contact me.

Plans viewable at the moment on this site are in "gif" format each part of the main plan
being linked to a more detailed drawing showing basic measurements to allow
construction. External measurements have been omitted so that turning and
decoration is left to individual choice.

My thanks to Francesco Lovisetti for sending the plans the Baghet and Boha

Plans Available:

These can be viewed on the site by clicking on the name (saved as gif).